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...consider this: Ted and Alice are square (!). They are nice squares they are friendly squares, they are lovable squares. They have your sympathies from the outset-not only by default, but because they really are swell people. They want to be able to smoke pot without coughing; they want to believe in Esalen; they want to dig wife-swapping. If they rather than Bob and Carol, had gone to Esalen, they might even have been saved...
...heroine of The Sterile Cuckoo is a happy little dumpling of a college freshman called Pookie, a name that holds promises of maudlin disaster. The movie fulfills them. Pookie (Liza Minnelli) is what used to be called, back in the dim and distant fifties, a kook. She does swell things like move in with her straight-arrow boy friend (Wendell Burton) while he is studying for his finals, puts tape across her mouth-'cause she's promised not to talk to him-and communicates with him by holding up signs. College is some bucolic wonderland where...
...Plays at the Loeb have great sets. But, oddly enough, two other things that the Loeb does not have are exciting theatre and a Harvard audience. Luckily, a lot of genteel middle-aged locals frequent the Loeb, so the Loeb has money, and with money you can build that swell scenery. But what about the rest...
...Decade Ahead. Still, population is relentlessly exploding in what the report terms "unexploding economies." In the next decade, 18 Latin American cities will probably contain 1,000,000 or more inhabitants each, whether the nations are prepared for the flood of humanity or not. Bombay and Calcutta might swell to 20 million or even 30 million residents by the end of the century...
...appease industry by promising that the government would set an example of restraint. The 1969 deficit will be cut from $1.26 billion to $722 million, he vowed. Planned price increases by government-run gas and electricity utilities will be canceled. Military conscripts will be released a month early to swell the ranks of labor. And for the long term, the Finance Minister relayed a pledge from Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas: so long as he is in office, government spending will rise no faster than the gross national product...